The Sufi Path is a process of amanesis (remembrance, realization). In pre-eternity, God asked the spirits: Alastu bi Rabikum (Am I not your Lord)? When we come into this material existence, we forget about pre-eternity and the task of life is to remember our way back to the truth concerning the nature of our essential relationship with God. This process of remembering or recollecting is known as amanesis.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

The word "leadership" is, and has been for some time, a buzz
word which is espoused by many to be 'the' key to solving most, if not all, of
the problems in the world. If only there were the 'right' sort of leaders in the
world, then the political, economic, educational, business, scientific,
environmental, military, judicial, and spiritual difficulties facing humankind
could be resolved.

The desire for leadership is a pathological disorder
which is engendered in others by those who already have succumbed to the malady.
Leadership is a delusional belief system in which a human being believes that he
or she should be given (or usurp) the authority to organize and control the
lives of other human beings.

Chaos is not the opposite of leadership.
The co-operation of equals stands in opposition to the idea of
leadership.

Every human being is sovereign and has an inalienable right
to seek to push back the horizons of ignorance free from interference as long as
such efforts are consonant with honoring a like right in relation to others.
Reconciling the boundaries of sovereignty among human beings is a dynamic,
complex, and nuanced process ... a process that can only be successfully
navigated by means of an exercise of co-operation among sovereign individuals
and not through the leadership of the few with respect to the many.

This
book explores different aspects of the pathological character of 'leadership.'
Once the underlying principles of the delusional disorder are appreciated, an
individual might be in a better position to realize the character of the
pathology of leadership and resist its seductive, Siren-like wail.

This book is now available at Smashwords, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble and soon will be released at Amazon in paperback.